The Unity of Public Law.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (518 pages)
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Half Title Page -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- 1. Baker: The Unity of Public Law? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNITY OF BAKER? -- INSTRUMENTALISM AND METHODOLOGY -- 2. Deference from Baker to Suresh and Beyond - Interpreting the Conflicting Signals -- INTRODUCTION -- BAKER AND DEFERENCE -- DEFERENCE IN THE POST-BAKER ERA -- THE ROLE OF DEFERENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3. The Baker Effect: A New Interface Between the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Administrative Law - The Case of Discretion -- INTRODUCTION -- ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND THE CHARTER: A DIFFICULT START -- BAKER: FROM DUALISM AND HIERARCHY TO COORDINATION AND UNITY -- CONCLUSION -- 4. The Rule of Policy: Baker and the Impact of Judicial Review on Adminstrative Discretion -- INTRODUCTION -- SOFT LAW AS EXECUTIVE-JUDICIAL DIALOGUE -- SOFT LAW AND DISCRETION: BAKER v CANADA -- THE IMPACT OF JUDICIAL REVIEW AND THE RULE OF POLICY -- 5. 'Alert, alice and sensitive': Baker, the Duty to Give Reasons, and the Ethos of Justification in Canadian Public Law -- INTRODUCTION -- EMBODYING BAKER: THE ETHOS OF ALIVE, ALERT AND SENSITIVE -- FROM SKELETAL TO FULL-BODIED: A LIVING, BREATHING BAKER? -- SEVERAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BAKER ETHOS FOR CANADIAN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW -- THE BAKER ETHOS: THE AORTA OF CANADIAN PUBLIC LAW? -- 6. The Internal Morality of Administration: the Form and Structure of Reasonableness -- INTRODUCTION -- RELEVANCE AND WEIGHT, LEGALITY AND MERITS -- THE INTERNAL MORALITY -- ANALAGOUS STRUCTURES OF JUSTIFICATION -- WHAT IS REASONABLE? VS WHO DECIDES? -- WHAT IS LEFT OF LEGALITY/MERITS? -- CONCLUSION -- 7. The State of Law's Borders and the Law of States' Borders -- INTRODUCTION -- THREE RELATIONSHIPS THAT (SORT OF) WORK -- ONE MESSY MÉNAGE À TROIS -- CONCLUSION. 8. Refugees, Asylum Seekers, the Rule of Law and Human Rights -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RULE OF LAW, REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS -- JUDGING ASYLUM -- CONCLUSION -- 9. Judicial Review of Expulsion Decisions: Reflections on the UK Experience -- OUTLINE -- INTRODUCTION -- JURISDICTION AND DISCRETION -- ALIENS AND THE COMMON LAW -- EXPULSIONS FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY -- CHAHAL -- SPECIAL IMMIGRATION ACT COMMISSION -- REHMAN -- CONCLUSION -- 10. Rights in the Balance: Non-Citizens and State Sovereignty Under the Charter -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHS IN -- THE IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROTECTION ACT -- CONCLUSION -- 11. Common Law Reason and the Limits of Judicial Deference -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SEPARATION OF POWERS AND THE RULE OF LAW -- EQUALITY AND RATIONALITY -- NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC ORDER -- CONCLUSION -- 12. Of Cocoons and Small 'c' Constitutionalism: The Principle of Legality and an Australian Perspective on Baker -- INTRODUCTION -- RULE OF LAW AS A CONTESTED STANDARD -- JUDICIAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE RULE OF LAW -- REASONS FOR DECISIONS -- PRIVATIVE CLAUSES -- A FAIR HEARING -- CONCLUSIONS -- 13. Judicial Review, Intensity and Deference in EU Law -- THE STRUCTURE OF EU JUDICIAL REVIEW -- THE SOURCES OF EU ADMINISTRATIVE LAW -- JUDICIAL REVIEW, INTENSITY AND DEFERENCE -- 14. A Hesitant Embrace: Baker and the Application of International Law by Canadian Courts -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INTERPLAY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DOMESTIC LAW -- CONCLUSION -- 15. Authority, Influence and Persuasion: Baker, Charter Values and the Puzzle of Method -- INTRODUCTION -- AUTHORITY AND INFLUENCE: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS -- BAKER AND THE IDEA OF INFLUENTIAL AUTHORITY -- THE CHARTER AND THE COMMON LAW -- INFLUENCE AND INTEGRITY: SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- 16. The Common Law Constitution and Legal Cosmopolitanism -- I. II -- III -- IV -- V -- 17. The Tub of Public Law -- RIGHTS, VALUES AND TRADITION -- INTERNATIONAL LAW, GLOBALISATION, AND INFLUENCE -- THE BAKER CASE -- DUE DEFERENCE -- THE RIGHTS-CENTRED APPROACH -- REASONS, RATIONALITY AND A CULTURE OF JUSTIFICATION -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography.
This book tackles the relationship between the common law of judicial review, the written constitution and public international law.